Translate Armour

Translate Armour [minor} by Iczer

"Yeah, having body armor is great but this takes the cake."

The character can transform natural worn body armor into a protective shield.
When activated, unnatural body armor vanishes and the character becomes coated with an invisible protective force with an identical AR. As a force field, the character deflects some attacks before they strike rather than striking and being deflected. Thus the force field provides an SDC boost equal to the character's PE plus his ME (The force field does not drop when this SDc is gone. SDC recovers by resting the field for one hour.) and diverts away unpleasant stimuli (character is immune to chemical agents such as acids. They don't react with the force field). Likewise, energy attacks are reduced in strength by one half.
Worn armor requires 1 melee round to transform into a force field, and requires one action per round to maintain. The force field has a Natural AR equal to its normal AR, and its entire SDc is converted into force field SDC. Gadgets and fancy attachments such as weapons and sensory gear are not accessible when converted into force, and if the force field is broken down it stops protecting the character and reforms as physical body armor (with 1d4 SDC remaining and -4 AR). Force field SDC recovers at a rate of 1 every 5 minutes while active, but if the armor solidifies then the damage is permanent.